Frederick charles wise and willey greenwood



April 10, 192s. Re. 16,93()

F. C. WISE ET AL FLINT LIGHTER Original File@ April 14, 1925 FREDERICK CHArcLas, WISE.

lNVENTOR Y QW 7%@ ATTORNEY.

Reissues] Apr. Y10, 1928.

UNITED A STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDERICK cHABLEs WIsE AND WILLEY GREENWOOD, OE LONDON, ENGLAND, AssIGNOns 'ro ALFRED DUNHILL OE LONDON, INc., OE NEW YORK, N. Y., a CORPORA- TION 0F DELAWARE.

FLINT LIGHTER.

Orignal No. 1,550,859, dated August 25, 1925, Serial No. 23,160, led April 1 4, 1925. Application for reisnuepled June 30, 1927. Serial No. 202,730.

This invention relates to flint lighters of the kind in which a flint carrier, a wick tube, a pivoted arin carrying a closing .cap for the end of said tube, and `a spring which controls said arm, are arranged in an exposed position on the top of a flat fuel container. l

The principal object of the invention 1s. to provide means, in the case of lighters which are plated or made of precious metal, for rendering inconspic'uous and protecting from rust, the blade spring which controls the pivoted arm, and the invention consists in this respect in covering the or1g1nal`stee1 spring by an additional spring made of noncorrosive metal.

Anot-her object of the invention is to provide inconspicuous means for storing -llint refills, for which purpose the fuel container is, according to the invention, fitted with a screw stopper having an inwardly directed prolongation in the, form of a detachable barrel adapted to take the re-flls.

A third feature of the invention consists in pointing and annealing the ends of the spring which feeds t-he flint to the abraslve wheel so as not to damage the latter when contacting with the same after the Wearing out of the flint.

A still further object of the invention is to so cori'elate the parts of the lighter which are exposed on the top of the fuel container as to provide a compact and efficiently operating structure which may be readily manipulated with one hand.

Fig. 1 of the accompanying drawing represents a perspective vie w of the lighter.

Fig. 2, an incomplete sectional view of the same, and

Fig. 3,` a sectionaltop view of the flint barrel. i

The lighter comprises a fuelcontainer a on top'of which are mounted, in an exposed position, a wick tube b, parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fuel container a, a. flint barrel c, parallel to the transverse axis of the container a and thus perpendicular to the tube b, and a pivoted arm LZ which carries a closing cap e for the end of the wick tube and a hood e for the abrasive wheel o hereinafter referred to. The arm d is pivoted at f to a pillar g by means of a flat tail piece h formed with straight edges which are engaged by a steel spring@ so that the arm will be maintained by the spring either 1n closed, horizontal position, as shown in F ig. 1, or in an upright, open position when the lighter is in use. The wick tube b and the pillar g to which the arm d is pvoted are adjacent one of the longer edges of the top of the fuel container a, while the .barrel c supported by al site longer edge of the top of the fuel container. When the lighter is plated or made of precious metal, the steel spring spoils the appealance of the lighter, particularly since itis liable to get rusty. To obviate this drawback, another blade spring la, made of non-corrosive metal, for instancethe saine kind of metal employed in the surrounding elements, is superposed on the spring i so as to cover the latter. The spring lc, while concealing the steel spring, also tends to protect it from rust so that a liablearticle is obtained.

In order to allow the lighter to carry flint re-iills 1n an inconspicuous inanner, the screw stopper Z Which closes the filling aperture of the container a, is provided with a prolongation in the form of a barrel m which screws into the stopper and Which is adapted to receive the re-fills. The barrel m is preferably made of substantial length and pointed so thatk it can be used for distributing the cotton wool Within the container.

The flint n (Fig. 3) is fed to the abrasive wheel o at the end of the flint .barrel c in proximity to the Wick tube b by means of a coil spring p in the usual manner.

In order to prevent this spring from dain-4 aging the wheel o When contacting with the latter after the Wearing out of the flint, the ends p of the spring are according to the invention somewhat pointed and softened by annealing.

. We claiinz- 1. In a llint lighter ofthe chaia-cter` described, thecombination with a wick tube,

'a hood for covering the end of said tube,

and a pivoted lever carrying said hood, of a steel spring bearing against said lever so as to hold the hood either in open or closed position, and a blade of non-corrosive met-al superposed on said steel spring so as to cover and conceal the same, substantially as and for th purpose set forth. y

2. A flint lighter of the character d emore durable and re post c is adjacent the opposcribed, comprising a casini; constitutin in itself a container for direct. y receiving uel, said casing having a fuel receiving opening in one of its walls, an cxteriorly accessible stopper for said opening, abarrel carried by the stopper, said barrel deslgned to contain Hints and to project a distance into the casing, spark generating means and flame sustaining means on another Wall of the casing.

3. A flintV lighter of the character described, comprising a casing constituting in itself a container for directly receivingr fuel, said casingr having a fue] receiving opening in its base, an exteriorl'y accessible screw stopper for said opening, a barrel removably carried by said stopper, said barrel designed to contain flin'ts and to project a distance into the casing, spark generating means and flame sustaining means on the top of the 20 casing.

FREDERICK CHARLES -WISE. VILLEY' GREENWOOD. 

